Movie Review: Glamour Girls
July 12, 2022 .
Glamour Girls, movie, Netflix, Nollywood
This movie lacked depth. I doubt if the makers took time to even read through the storyline, because there was none whatsoever. ...
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January 25, 2022 .
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As an African woman, I have lived in shame, and shame has lived in me. I told myself I was keeping my virginity for my husband. I ...
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July 20, 2025 .
Essays
Through the lens of Aunty Ifeoma, Adichie masterfully explores the intricacies of postcolonial Nigeria and its effect on the new c...
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March 16, 2023 .
One thing I cannot wrap my head around is why children get flogged for lack of payment of school fees; I will understand this prac...
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October 21, 2023 .
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I was impressed at the simplicity of the language used in Things Fall Apart, as it made it easy to read. I also loved the Igbo wor...
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February 3, 2025 .
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When Love Visits is a contemporary romance novel that narrates how Uju and Tade, both in their thirties and successful fall in lov...
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November 27, 2025 .
African Literature, Essays
Contemporary African literature distinguishes itself by reclaiming both the right to tell African stories and to define their term...
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July 12, 2022 .
Glamour Girls, movie, Netflix, Nollywood
This movie lacked depth. I doubt if the makers took time to even read through the storyline, because there was none whatsoever. ...
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March 2, 2022 .
king of boys, KOB, movies, naija, nigerian movies, Nollywood, sequel
Nevertheless, we know is that this sequel is a win for Nollywood. And when someone asks you if anything good has ever come out fro...
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January 15, 2022 .
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The only this this movie has going for it is the cast. The makers of this movie assembled Nollywood’s finest but sadly, even Nolly...
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May 26, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review, Family Trauma
Plot-wise, it was well thought out. No unnecessary gaps, the central theme was clear from the jump. Oyinkan builds tension steadil...
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May 21, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review
For a collection of short stories, Niq Mhlongo manages to give his characters depth in a few pages/sentences.
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May 22, 2026 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Itohan had travelled to Juk to retrieve Ebuka’s badly mangled body and returned it to his old parents in their village in Imo Stat...
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November 19, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
A Meal Is a Meal is a journey into the surprising and the bizarre, as well as the tantalising and the delicious.
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November 10, 2025 .
Excerpt
In fact, on the morning of my birthday, just after we had broken up, I had spent time in the hotel begging someone else to love me...
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November 7, 2025 .
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But he walked out the door and said he would go, by foot, if necessary, to Afghanistan, to kill the infidels who were bombing Musl...
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November 5, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Those hours waiting for her mother to return were spent in a state of inertia; she wouldn’t have been able to say what she had don...
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November 3, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt, Middle Grade
By the time you get this, I will be far away. It is cowardly, I know, but I cannot see your faces and walk away. Please forgive me...
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October 23, 2025 .
African Literature
The Road to the Country is not about reimagining war. It’s about facing it; its chaos, silence and legacy. It’s about the people w...
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September 17, 2025 .
African Literature
Think of Freshwater book as Eddie and Venom: the parasitical aspect, with its supreme interactions with the ordinary.
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September 17, 2025 .
African Literature
Swallow is a Queernormative historical fiction that reimagines the lives of Efunsetan Aniwura and Efunporonye Osuntinubu, two powe...
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September 16, 2025 .
African Literature
Eloghosa Osunde writes in a way that keeps the reader in awe and gives shivers. Refreshing. Subliminal. Surreal. Daring.
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